Wayne Rash

For cyber criminals, the holiday shopping season offers what we used to call a “Target Rich Environment” back when I was in the military. During the holiday seasons there’s a lot of the kind of activity that cyber-criminals love. There are more customers buying things and that means that there are more credit card numbers […]

Just barely in the nick of time, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has officially requested a recount of election results from the Nov. 8 contest in which Republican candidate Donald Trump defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton to become president elect. While a request for a recount in a close race isn’t unusual, in this […]

Tatu Ylönen, CEO and founder of SSH Communications Security, was clearly frustrated as we talked over lunch. “Why can’t I get through to them,” he asked, almost rhetorically. Ylönen was expressing a level of dismay common in the security industry. Getting senior management to invest in security can be a daunting task. Unfortunately for many […]

When Apple iPhone 6 Plus devices started showing up with a strange failure mode earlier this year, users were mystified at first. The problem, which soon became known as “touch disease,” emerged when handsets stopped responding to touch commands and a flickering gray bar appeared at the top of the screen. The details of smartphone […]

By now you probably have an idea of how online advertising works. A website presents information that people want to see and located in the vicinity of the information are advertisements for you to consider while viewing the information you actually came for. Sometimes those ads are for display only and don’t require the user […]

Before I started the write this column today, I spent a few minutes with my favorite news site, The Onion. In the Science and Technology section of that humor newspaper, the headline “Horrible Facebook Algorithm Accident Results In Exposure To New Ideas,” stood out. It seemed appropriate to this week’s announcement that Facebook would start […]

This is one of those problems that presents itself to most companies every year. What to do about laptop computers that are reaching the end of their useful life? For that matter, how do you even determine the useful life of a laptop computer? For most companies, the end of life is more of an […]

When I first began reporting on how the internet and the political process interacted, first for my column in those days and then for my book on the topic, I found that there were a few constants. Political organizations used the internet in those days just like businesses used it—to get the word out and […]

By around 10 p.m. Eastern time on Nov. 8 it was clear that the presidential election results weren’t playing out as expected. That first became apparent when the states most poll watchers expected to be easy wins by Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton had suddenly become squeakers. Margins everywhere became very narrow and it wasn’t long […]

Bernie Sanders was right a year ago at the beginning of the first Democratic Party primary debates when he said, “The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damned emails.” He was referring to the first stories after investigators revealed that Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton had maintained a private email server, contrary […]